I have been putting off upgrading Home Assistant for about a month now because of all of the breaking changes. I tried before and was spectacularly unsuccessful with it and was forced to roll back the Docker image but this time, I had set aside a few hours and was ready to fix all the critical Breaking Changes that broke my system (and spirit) early.
High level, the steps are :
Upgrade the Docker containers. I have a special script called HAUpdate.sh that I use to upgrade all of my Docker containers in one motion.
If you are curious what containers I am working with, check out this post:
http://vcloudinfo.com/2018/06/rolling-out-some-new-docker-containers.html
Once we were running 0.88.1, the next step was to tackle the big issues I had encountered due to Breaking Changes. These included the SpeedTest component, sensor naming changes, the dreaded Time_Pattern change and a Notify error that I ran into that was caused by case sensitivity. When I first completed the upgrade, both my Automation AND Scripting engines were offline so no automations were happening in the house until I fixed everything.
The Time breaking change was really apparent and annoying. I have a lot of scripts that are time based, from the Cuckoo Clock to all the routines we use to get the kids out of the house on school days.
I really had to get this piece taken care of at the time of the upgrade. I just couldn’t leave it in the broken state it fell into immediately after the upgrade.
And this time, I was NOT rolling back.
To see the entire breakdown of the upgrade, check out the video below:
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Happy Upgrading!
